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Message no. 1
From: Caimbeul@*****.com (John Doe)
Subject: International Time zones
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:13:46 -0400
Were there any changes to international time zones referenced in
Shadowrun books?

I mean, are all existing 2004 time zones the same in the Shadowrun World?

I've seen that the time signatures on Shadowland doesn't include the
time zone. Is there a reason for this? (expect perhaps for privacy
purpose)?
Message no. 2
From: Jeffrey.T.Dougherty@********.edu (Jeffrey T Dougherty)
Subject: International Time zones
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
I don't believe that any changes were ever referenced in any of the
sourcebooks, although my knowledge is far from complete. As for the time
stamps, I always assumed that since they were Shadowland posts, the time
added was either the system time on the Shadowland node the poster was
logged into or just straight GMT.

-JTD
Message no. 3
From: adamj@*********.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: International Time zones
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:19:44 -0400
On 20-Oct-04, at 11:13 AM, John Doe wrote:

> Were there any changes to international time zones referenced in
> Shadowrun books?
>
> I mean, are all existing 2004 time zones the same in the Shadowrun
> World?

I don't recall any mentioned changes.

> I've seen that the time signatures on Shadowland doesn't include the
> time zone. Is there a reason for this? (expect perhaps for privacy
> purpose)?

I would suggest that - like words that have multiple spellings that are
magically all spelled in the typical American manner - times are run
through a filter [much like they are on message boards today], so you
can see times reflected in your local time zone or any other time zone
around the world.

[I realized a few days ago that I was still reading RPG.net on Mountain
Standard Time, even though I haven't been in that time zone for longer
than a few days in almost exactly two years, now.]

Cheers,
Adam
Message no. 4
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: International Time zones
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:18:58 +0200
According to John Doe, on Wednesday 20 October 2004 17:13 the word on the
street was...

> I mean, are all existing 2004 time zones the same in the Shadowrun
> World?

I don't think they're not (except maybe for the occasional country deciding
to change the time zone it's in -- this has happened in the past).

> I've seen that the time signatures on Shadowland doesn't include the
> time zone. Is there a reason for this? (expect perhaps for privacy
> purpose)?

Maybe it's just something the authors never bothered with? (Yes, this goes
against your Trekkie explanation :) The only books that had different
time/date stamps were the "European" books like London Sourcebook, where
the stamps were day-month-year instead of the American month/day/year
style.

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